Nickelodeon Is Channel 33, Comcast Adult On Demand Is 333

I discovered last night that my Comcast Adult on Demand channel is 333. Easy buttons for a child to accidently press, particularly when Nickelodeon is 33. That’s right, one extra push, and my five year old gets the Playboy listings instead of Spongebob.

Yeah, I blocked Adult on Demand, but I only found it in the first place because I was searching the hinterlands of Showtime en español.

It’s nice that you have such a good sense of humor about it. We imagine that eventually Comcast is bound to get some calls from parents who aren’t so pleasant to deal with.

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I just realized this last night when we where trying to go to food network and triple pressed 3 instead of 39. I thought to myself “jeez thats a really simple key combo to get to the adult site… thats kinda stupid”

Least they where smart enough to keep it out of the normal on-demand offerings though.

someone industrious enough will always find a way to accidentally correlate their children with porn. Either the remote is too easy to press, or the internet is too open, or they left their porn out and the kid found it, or whatever.

@jamesdenver: Dude you never had kids huh? I was playing with the remote when I was 5, and back then it was a big ass box with a three way selector that you then pressed the button corresponding to the channel you wanted and the whole thing was tethered to the “cable box” by a huge telephone wire like cord.

And there was no such thing as a cable block. It was called your dad beat the living shit out of you when he caught you watching MTV.

And, I’m assuming that you don’t see any naughty bits without authorization? So lil’ Timmy’s tender little psyche will have to wait until he and his buddies share a Juggs magazine after school anyway? Yup. Thought so.
On the bright side, Hostel parts 1-4, Passion of the Christ, etc., are playing the next channel over, in their unscrambled glory, with no controversy. Sigh.

Parental Controls, people. You bred, now at least exercise some iota of responsibility.

But getting POed at comcast over this is ridiculous. A miskey gets you pron. So? The same thing happens on the internet, and it can happen in NYC. Someone tells your kid that to find the comic book store, he has to turn left at the corner and not right, boom, he’s at Adult World instead.

@jamesdenver: Once my kid figured out how the remote worked, there was no stopping his channel flipping, even though he has no idea what he’s doing. Take the remote away, and meltdown. Much easier to enable my governemnt-mandated v-chip to only allow shows that meet a certain rating. Amazingly useful. Now, let’s tell the AFA to go to hell or turn theirs on, so they get the utopia they dream about giving everyone who doesn’t want it.

69 should be the universal adult channel number. No confusion or surprise there.

This reminds me of the parents who freaked out when they found out the Wii’s internet connection is a gateway to porn for little tykes and tykettes. Set the parental control password and leave the rest of us porn surfing adults alone! ;)

To all the commenters mentioning blocking, did you all miss the part where the OP said he had already blocked the channel?

Also, I’m not familiar with the cable listing software these days, but doesn’t it still show the listing even though the channel is blocked? If it does, I could just see little Johnny asking “Daddy, what’s Debbie Does Dallas?” because he could still see the listing.

@mduser: Under Parental Controls, there’s an option called ‘hide adult titles’, or something to that affect. When that is on, it turns the guide listing to simply, ‘adult program’ with no further details.

Perhaps. The images may make them strangely curious as to what they are seeing though. Ever had a friend [in elementary] wondering what “playing” they were doing with that other person? Funny memories…

This story makes me chuckle, because when I was a child, I accidentally discovered porn this way and probably jump-started my puberty at the tender age of 9.

Ironically enough, Nickelodeon was Channel 9, the porn channel was 99.
If anyone was wondering, it was lesbian sex.
And this happened 16 years ago *gasp*!

I don’t recall if blockers existed back then.

Anyway, in this day and age, I’d blame the victim for not putting locks on said channels. Especially virtually everything has what dragonpup has stated, hide adult titles.

I really wouldn’t make a huge deal out of this. On my digital cable box, Playboy Channel doesn’t have any specific listings in the program guide and doesn’t show a video preview. Put the channel on block and it doesn’t even show in the guide. I used it to get rid of all the goddamn Espanol channels.